The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the three Delhi municipal corporations here to ensure payment of February salaries to all employees by March 29.
“All the corporations must ensure that salaries of all the employees for the month of February, 2016, be paid by the next date of hearing (March 29),” a Bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath said. The Bench, which had on March 16 directed all the three municipal corporations to pay the February salary by Monday, was informed that most of the employees have been paid salary. During the hearing, the advocates appearing for the municipal corporations told the bench that salaries of five to 10 per cent employees were to be paid now and in some of the zones like West, 100 per cent salaries have been paid for the month of February.
They also gave details of the salaries being paid to the employees for the month of February. The employees union, however, said that salaries of all the employees have not been paid despite the court’s order. “They (corporations) are saying there are some difficulties due to which entire funds have not been disbursed. They are saying whosoever has not been paid, will be paid within a week,” the Bench observed. Delhi government’s senior standing counsel Rahul Mehra told the court that in this issue, there are certain obligations of the Centre also.